| Author Quoted | Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov |
| Title Quoted | Godmanhood as the main idea of the philosophy of Vladimir Solovyev / Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov ; ed. by Peter P. Zouboff. Chteniia o Bogocheloviechestvie |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1956/08/07 |
| Imprint | [Poughkeepsie. NY] : [Harmon], [1944] |
| Quotation | Soloviev-The strength of a falsehood insists on the importance of a corresponding truth. "The importance of a truth lies of course not in the truth itself but within us in our inconsistency by not carrying out a truth to the end, we limit it-and any limitation of a truth provides an expanse for falsehood." ...He says, in effect, that consistency in truth means striving with pure and perfect hope to realize our "positive unconditionality" that is that we can possess in God the "whole content, the fulness of being, not as a mere fantasy-but as a real actuality." Also it is on this "inconsistency" that he bases his accusation of inadequacy of Catholicism-"it does not carry its faith to its logical end." He adds that modern materialism, struggling to overcome the Catholic tradition (and in this struggle according to him it will be successful) is a transition period between the inadequate spirituality of the past and the new, more perfect, spirituality of the future-"Godmanhood." |
| Quotation Source | A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Life. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 3, 1952-1960.; Edited by Lawrence S. Cunningham. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 63 |
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